A Bookshelf of Japanese Tales and Verse

Akinari, Ueda, translated by Chambers, Anthony, H., Tales of Moonlight and Rain, Columbia University Press

Bownas, Geoffrey and Anthony Thwaite. translators and editors, The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse: From the Earliest Times to the Present, Penguin Classics

Carter, Steven D., Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology, Stanford University Press

Lady Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Kencho Suematsu, The Tale of Genji, Tuttle Publishing

Lady Sarashina, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan, translated by Ivan Morris, Penguin Classics

MacMillan, Peter, editor, One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, Penguin Classics

MacMillan, Peter, translator, Tales of Ise, Penguin Classics

Rexroth, Kenneth and Ikuko Atsumi, translators and editors, Women Poets of Japan, New Directions

Sato, Hiroaki and Burton Watson, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, University of Washington Press

Sawa, Yuki and Edith Marcombe Shiffert, translators and editors, Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry

Shonagon, Sei, translated by Meredith McKinney, The Pillow Book, Penguin Classics

The Manyoshu: The Nippon Gakujutso Shinkakai Translation of 1000 Poems, Columbia University Press